This story is deeply disturbing. It is absolutely inexcusable and unconstitutional to deny incarcerated people access to their attorneys for more than 2 months.
P..S. The phone system work-around is NOT suffixient, because calls made to attorneys in this way are being recorded, which violates attorney-client privilege.
This story is archived here: https://archive.ph/5liLS
#SixthAmendment #RightToCounsel #ConstittuionalLaw #Oklahoma #Watonga #PrivatePrisons #Ice #Immigration
Judge #BerylHowell struck down in its entirety #Trump's punitive #ExecutiveOrder targeting #LawFirm #PerkinsCoie as a violation of the US #Constitution's protections for #FreeSpeech & #DueProcess.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290.184.0.pdf
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>>The right to a criminal defense lawyer is so ingrained in the American idea of justice that fans of TV police dramas can recite these two lines from the Miranda rights by memory: You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.
But in much of Texas, that right is routinely denied. Every year, more than half of rural Texans accused of misdemeanors are left to represent themselves ... <<
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/texas-criminal-defense-attorney.html
Trump pulls BOMBSHELL stunt, shocks the WORLD
https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/trump-pulls-bombshell-stunt-shocks-the-world
https://reason.com/2024/06/21/the-supreme-court-again-strengthens-the-right-to-a-jury-trial-in-criminal-sentencing/
"The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the right to a trial by jury and to due process apply to people who face a steep sentencing enhancement under federal law, in a ruling that transfers some power from the hands of judges to the public and will affect many criminal defendants' future punishments."
""Prominent among the reasons colonists cited in the Declaration of Independence for their break with Great Britain was the fact Parliament and the Crown had 'depriv[ed] [them] in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury,'" he writes. "The Fifth and Sixth Amendments placed the jury at the heart of our criminal justice system" in order "to mitigate the risk of prosecutorial overreach and misconduct" and serve as a check on the government."
#FifthAmendment #SixthAmendment #HumanRights
Be calm. Be courteous. But be firm.
#Cops will lie their asses off to get you to talk, but if you tell them you won't be answering any questions until you have an attorney, you don't have to say a damn thing. Period. #SixthAmendment
And in case you're wondering, cops can literally say anything with zero accountability, but if *you* lie to *them* it can go very poorly for you.
We need #accountability for the #police
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/black_box_government/
"Democratic lawmakers once again have proposed legislation to ensure that the software source code used for criminal investigations can be examined and is subject to standardized testing by the government."
"The bill, introduced in 2019 and in 2021 to no avail, aims to guarantee that criminal defendants have the opportunity to assess the fairness of software used against them."
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